Please find attatched an invitation to speak at the Oxford Union on Tuesday 27th October, the motion for this forum will be 'This House believes that white middle class women have stolen the feminist cause from those who need it most'. The details of the motion are outlined in the attatched document, I'm sure that you will have alot to contribute.

The event will be taking place within Gender week, and will be run in conjunction with OUSU and OxWib (Oxford Women in Business). The format will be relatively informal, a short address followed by a Question and Answer, but obviously we can be flexible to any alternative ideas and requirements.

The Union has hosted a wealth of prestigious speakers including Mother Teresa, Richard Nixon, The Dalai Lama, Micheal Jackson and Malcolm X to name but a few. We would be honoured to add you to this list.

This is an excellent description of Third Wave; one of the most accurate and succinct I've seen. From the online version of the Encylcopedia Brittanica:

The
third wave of feminism emerged in the mid-1990s. It was led by
so-called Generation Xers who, born in the 1960s and ’70s in the
developed world, came of age in a media-saturated, culturally and
economically diverse milieu. Although they benefitted significantly
from the legal rights
and protections that had been obtained by first- and second-wave
feminists, they also critiqued the positions and what they felt was
unfinished work of second-wave feminism.

The third wave was made possible by the greater economic and
professional power and status achieved by women of the second wave, the
massive expansion in opportunities for the dissemination of ideas
created by the information revolution of the late 20th century, and the
coming of age of Generation X scholars and activists.

Some early adherents of the new approach were literally daughters of the second wave. Third Wave Direct Action
Corporation (organized in 1992) became in 1997 the Third Wave
Foundation, dedicated to supporting “groups and individuals working
towards gender, racial, economic, and social justice”; both were founded by (among others) Rebecca Walker, the daughter of the novelist and second waver Alice Walker. Jennifer Baumgardner and Amy Richards, authors of Manifesta: Young Women, Feminism, and the Future
(2000), were both born in 1970 and raised by second wavers who had
belonged to organized feminist groups, questioned the sexual division of labour in their households, and raised their daughters to be self-aware, empowered, articulate, high-achieving women.

Shared these thoughts and a few more with a reporter from CNN a few moments ago:

The arrest of Henry Louis Gates sends a chilling message to the scholars, writers, activists, and artists who work so hard to
keep a free flow of information. It seems eerily ironic Mr. Gates was
returning from China, where surveillance is so high and freedom of
speech and ideas so curtailed. To see the "mugshot" of Skip was a blow
to all of us who feel some sense of safety based on our work to try to
mend all of these broken fences in America--to make ourselves into
people who refuse to be limited by race and class and gender and
everything else. We do this work every day, and it is work, just like
any other. To end up, at the end of the day, treated like a criminal,
unjustly stripped of our accomplishments and contributions even if only
for a moment, is profoundly disturbing. We must ask ourselves what it
means, and to allow ourselves to face various scenarios regarding power
and freedom and how these will intersect in the coming years.